Okay, I know I should post like chapter 5 of the other story but I honestly can't write it so I apolagize with this.
I will write another chapter of this story and I already choose up the pick-up lines so it shouldn't take long for me to have it ready but idk. beware of writer's block.


CHAPTER 1

Uchiha Obito, aged ten, came to a shocking revelation: he didn't have a crush on Rin. Well, not anymore. Instead, the same blushing and the knotting of his stomach happened in regards of his other teammate, Hatake Kakashi. The problem? Obito was a boy and so was Kakashi.

He kinda panicked, barricading himself into his house and not coming out until a concerned and very angry Kushina Uzumaki came in by crushing his front door.

"Kushina-nee, I don't have a crush on Rin! I don't have a crush on Rin!" he wailed, hugging the woman with his tiny arms.

On her part, the red-head was left fairly confused. She knew that the young Uchiha had a crush on his female teammate, it wasn't that hard to notice, but she also knew that Obito couldn't have panicked just because he realized he didn't like her anymore….

She never got an explaination and the issue was dropped.


At the age of eleven, Obito was finally coming to terms with his….feelings towards Kakashi.

He didn't accept them, he pretty much still found the other boy annoying, rude and a total asshole but he was now starting to appreciate the small things- like Kakashi giving advice or correcting a fight stance (the closer he got at showing he cared), how his eyes were starting to lose their cold edge and becoming fond while with the team. Small things, but those were important small things.

Plus Kakashi was cute, there was no denying it. He never had a problem admitting that Kakashi was cute. He actually had lengthy arguments with Rin on this topic.

He also spoke with Mikoto, his aunt, and it helped to soothe some of his fears and doubts. Like if the clan would have reacted badly at him liking another boy. They already treated him rudely, he didn't want to make things worse.

She'd reassured him.

"We aren't the best clan out there, Obito, but no one has ever had a problem with same-sex relationships before. I am aware that the other Uchiha aren't kind with you- I'm sorry I can't help- but we are, as a whole, a rather open minded group. You are still young. Fall in love. Have your 'first times'. Have your first kiss, your first date, your first break up. Explore yourself. Live. Kiss boys, date girls. Try various kinds of relationships if you want. Be yourself. As long as it's your choice, don't be afraid to try. Okay?"

"Thank you, Mikoto-baasan."


At twelve, with puberty starting to make things worse with a lot of Gay Thoughts™, he decided to 'fuck with it, if I have to be gay, I refuse to be subtle!' and bought a book on pick-up lines.

It was actually a good idea.

The book, 'How to flirt for dummies, volume 1', explained how to interact with different kinds of s/o and in various types of daily life scenarios and how to be the subtle-but-not-strong kind of smooth and the smooth-as-fuck kind of smooth.

Obito was happy Kakashi was so easy to apply those pick-up lines on.


Obito was running late.

Again.

He could see his teammates waiting for him at the usual spot under a tree, Minato-sensei and Rin- he'd stopped adding the 'chan' to her name when he accepted his crush for Kakashi- under said tree while Kakashi was seated on one of the branches.

It was summer, so they were wearing short clothes.

They saw him approaching, irritated looks on their faces.

He tripped on a wayward stone, falling down on his stomach.

Kakashi, surprisingly the first to help him out, offered him a hand that he took gladly.

"Are you okay Obito?"

"I'm fine sensei. By the way Kakashi, do you have a band-aid? Because I just scraped my knee falling for you."

Him and Kakashi were still holding hands when he said this.

A cricket was heard in the distance, Kakashi's cheeks tinted pink under the mask and Rin and Minato looked with baffled expression at the unexpected development.

"Did I say something wrong?"


They were at the library, studying in order to try and create their own techniques with Minato supervising, when Obito needed to write something down but didn't have a pencil.

He asked Kakashi, obviously "Do you have a pencil?"

"Sure, how come?"

"'Cause I want to erase your past and write our future."

Kakashi dropped the pencil, blushing harder than last time and hid his head into a book while Rin looked at him with squinted eyes.

Minato had a double-take, staring at his older boy with wonder. He couldn't tell what exactly Obito was doing or even if there was a purpose. He wasn't worried. His boys had started to finally get along with each other nicely, Obito actually listened to Kakashi and the latter gave a less annoyed vibe and Rin easily fell in-between their now peaceful interactions with ease. But something in his mind stayed. Obito didn't feel like someone who would try to purposely hurt a teammate, much less a friend, so Minato decided that he could wait for now. Wait and see how the situation changed and to only intervene if things got difficult. Worse case scenario, he could rope Kushina in and get her help. She wouldn't mind.

For now, he was happy his students were getting along.


They went to see a photo gallery on Konoha's past, dressed casually and with Kushina as an addition.

It soon developed into a discussion on the people in the photo, the locations, the history.

Rin and Kushina were rather passionated about it, Minato-sensei smartly avoiding getting caught in the middle and Kakashi and Obito stood in front of the photos about the various married couples.

None of them were listening to the two females.

"Well, what do you think, Kakashi-kun?" and this is what they got for not paying attention.

"I don't know, Kushina-san….what about you, Obito?"

Bastard.

"Well, I'm not a photographer Kakashi, but one thing I can picture, is me and you together. That's the only thing I really care about, honestly."

Cue, Kakashi blushed, Rin gave him a suspicious glance and both Kushina and Minato choked on their own saliva.

"You all are over reacting."he deadpanned.


It was August tenth and the five of them were stargazing.

Well, all but Obito. He was Kakashi-gazing. The younger boy's dark eyes reflected the sky.

(Fuck, Obito had it soooo bad.)

Anyway, Obito was looking more at Kakashi's eyes rather than the sky and he got so lost in thoughts that he didn't even realize when the younger boy had called for him.

Still dazed he commented "I think I need a map."

Kakashi raised a thin eyebrow "A map….for the sky?"

"No, for your yes. I keep getting lost in them."

Aaand suddenly, Kakashi couldn't look at him in the eyes. He was blushing though, so it could probably be considered a win.


Obito found himself hating to argue with Kakashi. Especially arguing over stupid things. How the fuck did they even mange to argue about gravity?!

He knew nothing but the basics about gravity!

"You need gravity to stay anchored to the ground. Even the moon is controlled by the gravity on earth. You don't want to have no gravity."

Rin and Minato watched on the sidelines, amused.

"Kakashi."

"Plus, if there wasn't gravity, there wouldn't be a distinction between ground and sea. People and animals wouldn't be able to stay down, we would go over the atmosphere and die."

"Kakashi."

"And also, without gravity, the pressure would be all messed up and-"

"Kakashi! Asshole let me speak. I'm not saying that no gravity would be good, however, what I am saying is that even if there wasn't gravity on earth, I'd still fall for you!"


Now, Kakashi had realized Obito was up to something. He kinda changed. He didn't really argue with him as much as before and when he did, there was no malice in the insults. It actually felt like as if Obito didn't even want to insult him.

Their relationship was healthier, more open and closer.

It felt….good. Nice.

So it wasn't exactly a surprise when Obito invited him to stay at his house- his own apartment building had suffered a few problems and all the inhabitants had been asked to find a new place to stay for the weekend- and Kakashi had accepted.

Obito's house was far too big for someone to live there alone, unused rooms were used more as storage than anything else and Kakashi noticed how there were a lot of small statue of famous shinobi. Like a collection.

It was only at the end of his stay that Kakashi actually voiced his thoughts on Obito's hoarding habits.

"I'm not a hoarder but I'd really want to keep you forever." Obito had answered, giving him a small smile and waving as he left the house, only for Kakashi to stop after reaching the gates of the Uchiha compound.

"What the hell, Obito!"

His face was so red…


They were on an outing with the some other chuunin of their generation- so him, Kakashi and Rin plus Anko, Kurenai, Asuma and Gai- and they were having a fairly good time.

They went out to eat together, chatting about recent missions, teammates and family.

They went to the karaoke, even if only Gai and Anko actually sung something. To everyone's surprise, the green clad boy was a good singer.

Then, it was the time for them to go back to their own houses, only that Obito remembered that the older Uchiha were having a party and that should they see him this late at night….well, he wasn't eager to find out just how cruel a few drunk Uchiha could be. Once had been enough.

The only real option he had was asking Kakashi to crash at his house for the night.

"Kakashi?" he'd been loud enough that even the others ended up hearing him and Obito found himself being stared at by six pairs of eyes.

"….What is it?" Kakashi answered after a few seconds of pause.

Obito didn't wait a second.

"Can I follow you home? 'Cause my parents always told me to follow my dreams."

A beat of silence.

"Holy shit, Obito-" "Oh my God, Obi-" "Smooth bastard-" ah, Rin, Anko and Asuma sure had the best reactions.

He kept an innocent smile plastered on his face, Kakashi's skin turning redder that usual as his brain caught onto what he'd asked.

Gai was staring, starry eyed, while Kurenai had eeped and blushed right before hiding her face in her hands.

Kakashi wasn't breathing. Obito fidgeted.

A sigh, long and- exasperated? Got out of Kakashi's mouth.

"….You are sleeping on the floor, idiot." Kakashi sounded fond.

Obito beamed, making an impression of flowers and sparkles appearing and he trotted after Kakashi.

"BE SURE TO USE PROTECTION!"

Obito was faster than Kakashi and threw a random chair at Asuma.

Kakashi couldn't see it, but Obito's face was even redder than his.

They both slept on the floor.


"Have you always been this cute, or did you have to work at it?" was what Obito had said as soon as he saw what Kakashi was wearing, gaining the befuddled stares of his companions.

They were wearing kimonos, as they had decided to go at Konoha's Hanabi Festival and that was the traditional wear for such occasions.

Kushina and Rin were wearing yukata, the former in a rich blue colour with small waves painted across the fabric and the younger girl had on a pink one with various flowers embroidered while Minato was wearing a male kimono in various shades of greens with decorations of leaves.

Surprisingly, even Kakashi had chosen to wear a kimono despite his former protests and now Obito found himself staring: the younger boy was wearing a kimono dark grey in colour, a depiction of a white wolf gave a stark contrast on the dark colour and it had its body pointing towards a silver moon while another wolf's head was on the kimono's back, a tinge of colour in the animal's blue eyes and a contrasting white obi, decorated with silver and black lightening bolts kept it closed. Obviously, Kakashi was still wearing his mask even if in another colour, but his hair fell on his face in a messy fashion without the hitai-ate keeping it at back and a few bangs were kept away from his eyes by some hairpins.

A red tinge appeared on Kakashi's cheeks, and he eyed Obito out of the corner of his eyes and he noticed what the Uchiha was wearing: a simple deep purple kimono closed by a red obi but both were in contrast with the haori he was wearing, that had vertical white and black stripes with red roses made in a mixture of paint and embroidery with a few golden edges on the borders of the petals while the Uchiha clan symbol stood on its back, surrounded by the red flowers.

His blush grew stronger, but decided to answer Obito's casual comment.

"If I'm cute, then when God made you, he was obviously showing off."

He noted that Obito's usually light skin flushed a faint pink that soon turned red when Kakashi stood by his side and caught Obito's pinky finger with his own.

They walked like that all of the night, never really noticing when they ended up fully holding each other's hand.


Kannabi had been a disaster.

Even if their relationship had turned out to be better and better, they still had ideological differences: Kakashi still put the mission first- even if in a less obsessed way- and Obito would always put his teammate before anything else.

When Rin got captured, they argued. Kakashi still had nightmares about his father's suicide, it was a skeleton he couldn't yet let go of. Obito understood, in part, but that didn't mean he had to like it. He loved Kakashi, he really did, but he wasn't going to stomp over his own nindo for that. He pushed his feelings back into his mind and gave Kakashi his back.

When he awoke his sharingan, he realized two things: one, Kakashi had come back to help; two, the enemy had hurt Kakashi, who had jumped in the way in order to save him from almost certain death. This was unacceptable. And it had been his fault. Pushing those negative emotions aside, he looked over Kakashi and bandaged his now useless eye and with a few exchanged words the two took of to Rin's direction.

They should have seen it, that it had been too easy. Now they were trapped.

They ran, hoping to get out of the cave before being trapped- or worse, dying- by the falling rocks, Rin first, Kakashi second and Obito last. This was the reason he was able to push him out of the way, when Kakashi got it over his bandaged eye, it caused pain to flare up his body and shutting off his mind. Obito noticed the younger boy falling, only running just a bit ahead of him before realizing the danger and going back to jostle the other up. Subconsciously, he looked up. Fear caught his thoughts. He threw Kakashi out of the way of the falling boulder, but he was frozen and couldn't move.

Then pain.

Then nothing, his right side crushed and devoid of any feelings. Numb.

His only good eye, the left one, took a few minutes to focus. He saw Rin and her horror-filled expression, he saw Kakashi hovering over his body on a desperate attempt of moving the boulder.

"Kakashi, it's okay. Stop. You'll gain nothing doing that."

"No! I can't- Obito you can't- please…."

"I'm sorry, Kakashi, Rin." his voice was hoarse. He had trouble breathing. He came to a decision, firmly looking at both his teammates "Kakashi, take my sharingan as yours."

"Wha- what?"

"It was my fault you got injured. It's the least I can do to make up for that."

"You don't need to."

"You're right, I don't. But I want to." he glanced at Rin "Please, Rin, use your medical ninjutsu to perform the transplant. I know you can."

"I- I don't have painkillers..."

"Doesn't matter. Please guys, it's my decision to make. I'm dying, I want to be able to be a name worth remembering."

Rin performed the surgery, barely holding back her tears, but couldn't stay close as she finally realized the gravity of the situation.

"Be my eye for the future, 'kay Kakashi?"

They could feel enemies approach. Obito's heartbeat got fainter.

"Ne, Kakashi?"

"...What is it?"

"Should I smile because we ended up being friends, or cry because I realized that's what we would have ever only been?"

Obito never saw the dawning realization on Kakashi's face.

Outside the fallen cave, a battle started.

No one saw Obito's smile dropping and a lone tear falling down his cheek as his body got fully covered by the weight of the fallen rocks.


If you have pick-up lines hou want to see featured in this story, or even a situation for our dense idiots (aka: Obito and Kakashi) to be in, feel free to write it up in the comments.
Chapter two will be post-Kannabi and pobably a wedding.
:^)